Cognitive Literary Studies
Cognitive Literary Studies
The professorship represents the field of cognitive and empirical literary studies. It is particularly concerned with the processes that recipients use to make sense of literary and cultural phenomena , as well as the effects that such artifacts could trigger in them. The research area does not only consider mental processes, but also the bodily-physical ones. Important concepts in this context are experientiality, experiential feel, enactment imaginations as well as qualia (the quality of what it is like to have an experience). One main focus is on the question of how real recipients (in contrast to hypothesized constructs such as the implied reader) deal with literature and culture. Other special interests include narrative theory, postmodernist novels and plays, indigenous Australian prose, Charles Dickens, Romantic poetry, and film analysis.
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Professurvertretung Dr. Paul Sopcak | Phone: +49 241 80 96101 Fax: +49 241 80 92656 paul.sopcak@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de |
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Judith Eckenhoff M. A. | Phone: +49 241 8096104 Fax: +49 241 80 92656 judith.eckenhoff@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de |
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Jessica Jumperz M. A. | Phone: +49 241 80 96372 Fax: +49 241 80 92656 jessica.jumpertz@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de |
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Kai Qing Tan M. A. | Phone: +49 241 80 96104 Fax: +49 241 80 92656 kai.tan@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de |
PhD Candidate Sonja Mausen M. A. | sonja.mausen@rwth-aachen.de |
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Bianca Schüller M. A. | Phone: +49 241 80 96372 Fax: +49 241 80 92656 bianca.schueller@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de |
Secretary Ulrike Stalinski | Phone: +49 241 80 96108 Fax: +49 241 80 92656 ulrike.stalinski@ifaar.rwth-aachen.de |
wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft Lena Weinrank B. A. | lena.weinrank@rwth-aachen.de |